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April 2004 - Posts

Friday, April 30, 2004 3:10 PM

Serial Killer Vs Software Developer

Trust me this is a very good one to try out. Check the pix's and find if its a software developer or a serial killer ... :) ... You will be amazed with your scores yourself ... Click here for more ...
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Friday, April 30, 2004 9:10 AM

Views on MVP Program : Julia Lerman

This is an interesting post from Julia about what the MVP program feels like and what expectations have been set for the same. Check the same ... Source : Sudhakar
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:57 AM

MS acquires ActiveViews

Very very interesting headlines. This acquisition is to maximize on the BI service of SQL Server 2000 on Reporting Services. Check the cover story at crn . Speaking at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2004 in Chicago, Bill Baker, General Manager
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:14 PM

Objects & Values

This is a good old 2 part article, by Ted pattison, on value types and reference types. Part I http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/06/Instincts/default.aspx Value Types. Deciding btwn Classes and Structures. Cloning Objects Part II http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/BasicInstincts/default.aspx
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Friday, April 23, 2004 1:01 PM

MSDN @ Hyderabad

I am back after a MSDN Session on “.NET Interop with a pinch on Performance, Best Practices and Pitfalls”. Have to say it was a nice session. A bit on how P/Invoke works. I've been in the VB world from day 1 and have wondered how we can calll
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:34 PM

Share your WinXP Desktpo

This was something new I learnt today. Interesting to see that we can share our WinXP desktops in our organization. The Remote terminal connection service is enabled and can be used. Check this link http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gomobile/remotedesktop/enableremote.asp
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:04 AM

Amusing Windows tones

Couldnot think that Windows tones can make such beautiful music. Dont miss this ... Its cool ... http://www.ebaumsworld.com/windowsnoises.html
Posted by vinodkumar | 1 Comments
Monday, April 19, 2004 6:41 PM

The First "Computer Bug"

Very interesting to know how the word “bug” in computer terminology came ... http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566kc.htm
Posted by vinodkumar | 8 Comments
Monday, April 19, 2004 11:18 AM

Chris Sells - Tour through MSDN

If you have not gone to MS redmond, then this is the chance to view how it looks inside MS office ... A tour of the MSDN team :) ... http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2949
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Monday, April 19, 2004 11:16 AM

Interviewing at Microsoft

From Chris Sells ...
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Monday, April 19, 2004 11:00 AM

Its not a problem for MS only

I do accept the Big Bill is always pointed for producing softwares that are not reliable and stable. But this is an industry where we cannot say “I am perfect”. Bugs are part of the software and the community needs to understand that the majority
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Friday, April 16, 2004 5:39 PM

Nat and Miguel dancing with none other than David Vaskevitch ...

Source: Pooja From http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2004/Apr-12.html
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:39 PM

Needs job, moves to India ...

As U.S. jobs move abroad, more Americans are willing to work overseas says an article on Money.CNN staff writer ...
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:02 PM

MVP Summit Snaps Uploaded

Have uploaded some of the snaps I took with the fellow MVP's at the Global Summit. Catch then here . I still know I missed many :( ... But there will be another chance for sure.
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:19 AM

Executive Day - MVP Summit

This day was special. We had Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer; Jim Allchin, group vice president of the Platforms Group; Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Servers and Tools; Lori Moore, corporate vice president of Product Support Services (PSS);
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:12 AM

Sun's Blog Aggregation Effort

Sun is now back with thier employee weblog aggregation site after watching the MS technical blogging world. http://planetsun.org/ Via Sudhakar Sadasivuni ...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:58 AM

Back from MVP Summit

I know I cant write most of the content from the MVP as we are under a strong NDA. But still I think I can share my experience with all. BTW, I landed today after travelling half way around the world twice in the past 10 days :) ... Will update you all
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:36 AM

Pubs and Northwind scripts available for download

This is something asked common on the newsgroups. Here are the scripts for grab from the MSDN downloads section. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06616212-0356-46a0-8da2-eebc53a68034&DisplayLang=en This was included for the
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Saturday, April 03, 2004 1:13 PM

All set for MVP Global Summit

I am all set to start to MVP Global Summit tonight. Hoping to meet the Global MVP's at the summit. All the SQL Server MVP's ... Please write your comments on if we can meet up during the summit time ... Bryant, I think I would surely like to meet u ...
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:12 PM

Wallpaper for Visual Studio .NET

Very interesting implementation from Code Project ... Catch the article ...
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:09 PM

VSStyler

VSStyler allows users of Visual Studio .NET 2003 to load and save their font and color settings. The styles or saved in one place. Because of this, VSStyler allows a user to see all currently configured styles and switch between them at will. Catch it
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:05 PM

FxCop 1.30

FxCop 1.30 has been released . According to the blog post: We just released FxCop 1.30! Please visit http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/fxcop/ to download it. Main features: -No more locks on assemblies or pdbs -Ability to resolve missing dependencies -Ability
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:00 PM

Microsoft Acquires Yahoo!, Google in Blockbuster Search Deal

Steve Ballmer today announced the proposed acquisition of search giant Google and Internet services leader Yahoo! in a surprisingly bold bid to own the search and Internet services spaces. The deals, valued collectively at more than $75B will be a combined
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